53 second, color with sound film clip. Images include dog teams passing on the trail and racers crossing the finish line. George Attla is identified by the track announcer at the Alaska Dog Mushers Association track on Farmers Loop Road at...
8x10 photo. Title from handwritten note on verso. Full note reads:
"L to R Dispatcher Tom Devane, Capt Al Monsen, Oper Mgr Emmer Bassett, Capt S[.]E[.]Robbins Main Mgr Loren Fernald, [Sta. Mgr?] Clark Bassett, [Mail Spur?] Fred...
[Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett meets with America[n] Legion Boys Nation representatives from Alaska during the Boys Nation convention in Washington D.C. William Brewington, Jr., 16, from Anchorage, 3rd from left, and Carlton R. Smith, 17, of...
"Bonus scans: my father's favorite is him in his fur hat leaning oagainst the cowling of the Bellanca on skis. The last one is him in his Pan Am uniform."
Description from interview with Ralph Savory and his daughter, Diane.
Ransom Tony Schultz (Tony) came to Alaska in 1938. That same year he bought his first plane and obtained his pilot's license. He began flying for Star Airlines (later Alaska Airlines) in 1940, and in 1950, was chosen as their first chief bush...
"Picture number 3. That's Pan Am's winter uniform up there. We had a seal skin cap and regular navy overcoat and everything. Of course when it got cold we had parkas and everything to go over it."
By Ernest Gruening, Governor of Alaska, 1939-1953 Alaska the United States colony Keynote address Alaska Constitutional Convention University of Alaska, College, Alaska, November 9, 1955.
By Ernest Gruening, Governor of Alaska, 1939-1953. Alaska the United States Colony Keynote address Alaska Constitutional Convention University of Alaska, College, Alaska, November 9, 1955.